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Release dates, announcements, and anything else worth noting. No PR fluff, no embargoed opinions. If it matters to people who actually play the games, it's here.

August 1998

04 Aug
New Release
FRAG II Tournament Computers

The Cyberathlete Organization has announced now that Tiger Distributing will be providing all 32 tournament machines for the official CPL one-on-one Quake® II competition.

04 Aug
New Release
JKEdit v1.14 Released

This one is moving from rumor and preview talk into something players can actually get their hands on.

04 Aug
Industry
Labtec announces OEM agreement with HP

Labtec Inc, The Computer Audio Experts, now has announced it has entered into a major OEM agreement with Hewlett-Packard Company.

04 Aug
New Release
Joe Siegler Interview

Universal Gaming has posted an interview with 3D Realms webmaster, Joe Siegler. In the article, Joe talks about what he does here at 3D Realms, what he used to do when he was hired almost 6 years ago, and what life is like here.

04 Aug
New Release
PGL Match Announced

Competitive computer gaming is going international, and a group of the AMD Professional Gamers' League's (PGL) elite players is at the vanguard.

04 Aug
New Release
James Earl Jones in Tiberian Sun

Westwood Studios, has announced now that world-renowned actors James Earl Jones and Michael Biehn will be contributing their talents to Westwood's upcoming CD-ROM game Command.

04 Aug
New Release
Slave Zero Announced

The announcement pile gets another one today with Slave Zero Announced. Accolade has announced now a new 3D action game, Slave Zero.

04 Aug
Hardware Windows 95/98
3Dfx Voodoo Graphics Drivers

3Dfx has has released a new set 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics Drivers for Windows 95/98, these are reference drivers for people using a Voodoo 1 card.

04 Aug
New Release
I’ve just gotten the official confirmation:

The CD-ROM is in replication. Most of the team is out this week recuperating. Everyone has worked incredibly hard to bring us to this point and we're very proud of the result.